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South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1887-07-01
7As Lfehe or Lore.

Fair b the flush Of ths summe- dawn,
When the gate Of pearl uncioses.
AZ tt giimmers along the dswy lawn
And shimmers amid the rose;
AZ Il WAKES the little drops Of dew
To quiverinss Of del light.
And thre1ds tho aisles Of the forests through
On the trail OF the lying night.
soft Is the g'eam Of the summer stars
When the feverish day il over.
When the fays arc ofi,at in silvery cars,
And the dusky mo: b is q rover.
Wnen over the couch OF tho dreaming
flowers
The mists Of the fountain creep,
And TIE lsnguid ears Of tho drowsy hours
Are wooed by song OF the deep.
But the dazzling hues Of the morning fall,
And dul are its golden lances,
And all the light OF the stars grow pale
In my darling's tender glance,;
For the stars may burn with q thousand
dyes.
And myriad sunbsams fall,
But tho light o, love In a woman's eyes
Is the purest light OF all.
New York World.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1887-07-01

Sick Husband -'Did the doctor say
that ! am to take all that medicine
Wife--"Yes, dear" Sick Husband
''Why, there is enough in that bottle 10
kill mule" Wife (anxiously) --''You
had better be careful, John. ~ ostoa
Hordld.
"What makes Mr. Pottleton so I'm.
popular, wondcrg He's a good looking
young man and quite intelligent" "Yes
but he writes poetry" "WeIl that isn't
3 crime against society, is ~" No.
But he insists on reading il to you, too
--7olon Topics.
The fourth finger Of the left hand has
from the earliest date been used as
wedding ring finger. The ancient belief
was that nerve in this tngn
went directly to the heart. The
modern belief Is that the nerve leads
directly 10 the pocketbook, and sirdng'
20 say, after the ring il bought, the
modern terminus of that nerve is often
lighter than the ancient one ever could
have been.---Jstreley's Weekly.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1887-07-01
PITH AND POINT.

Out Of season--au empty pepper box.
To make Roman punch, call him a
liar Winnipeg S.ttings
All men try TO get the earth, but the
earth gets them. This is not n Joke il is
the grave truth. - Washington Critie.
Old lady-"IIow often does this Gle.
vstor come DOWN." Elevator boy-"Be.
tween the up-trips, ma'am. 49, TTd- Bit.
a man who hunts rats may be called
a ratter, but woman who hunts moths
Is not necessarily a mother. -SprinaySetd
Union.
In tho matter Of speed there is great
similarity between fash Of lightning
and bit Of unfounded gossip. st.
ANd0s MesscBgcr.
A lawyer may not be at all fastidious
In dressing, but no one likes 10 come out
in new suit any better than he does
Merchant Traceier.
Tired Reporter "Mr. Shears. the man
You sent me to interview got mad. - Able
Editor-"He didr' and choked me y
ca e powers" "And kicked me down
stairs" "The low-living scondreIl Spell
his name wrong. ~ Omaha World.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1887-07-01

The length Ola fash of lightning 1.
generally under-cs mated. The longest
known was measured by NJ. p. Petit OF
Toulouse. This fish was ten and a
half miles in length. Ths longest inter
val ever remarked between the flash and
the report was % seconds, which would
correspond with distance Of fourteen
miles. Direct researches have shown
that storm is seldom heard at greater
distance than seven to ten miles. while
the average are barely heard over four
or five miles of. This fact is more
curious, rs cannon may be distinctly
heard double or treble that distancc.
aud IN equal cases much better.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1887-07-01

81 thought" shc whispered. ''shss
life was very hard. But--I don't think
50 now. can understand II all Uncle
verney never liked you. He wanted me
to marry old Walker. But he il dead
now. Wen forget it all David--won't
wc7'
For your sake, darling--ycs!"
And in the general tidal wave Of hap
piness no ono once thought of Betscy lso-
per. crying her eyes out behind the big
kitchen towel in DR.. DORIS kitchen.
Il never had no chance to read 'un
before" said she. "And now 'un's
gone. An I doan't know whit Uncle
Ezra, in Yorrukshire, will say when he
hears how 'un disappeared"
But Betscy was not discharged. DR..
Door saw to that.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1887-07-01

Among the improvements at Mt.
Vernon made during the past year are
the restoration of the summer house by
the ladies o. Loui siana; restoration of
the old tomb by the ladies Of Michigan :;
n great Improvement in the surface
drainage OF the roads through the use of
terra Gotta piping, making them always
dry; and The rebuilding of tho terrace
wall in front Of the mansion. This last
has been laborious and costly work.
The sons of the late Mrs. Robert Clmp-
bell, vice regent for Missouri, have
tH red to restore the deer park as it was
in the time of Washington, in honor of
their mothers memory. A number of
new relics have been added to the coll
lection, especially in the West Virginia
room, which is in charge of Mrs. Lewis
Washington, mother OF William ID. III.
Washington, United States consul 20
London, Ont. Among these is an
cye-glass set in silver which was used by
Washington, and fragment of the
original coffin in which Washington
was buried. In glass case in this room
there is black velvet suit Of clothes
which Washington wore when in mourn
ing for his mother. Mrs. Washington
will also send some engravngs which
once belonged TO Washington. The
Illinois parlor has been handsomely fur
nshcd, thanks to the energy and in
fluencc Of Mrs. Letter. The dining room,
which belongs TO Massachusetts, contains
the library, which is being rc-collccted
through the efficient aid given by Miss
Longfellow, Of Cambridge, Mass.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1887-07-01

movement has taken definite shape
In Holland looking to the substi-
tuition of the Continental Sun
day. with slightly better obseI vance
of the Sabbath. The measures pro-
posed allow no work that is open to pub
lie view; no sales OF any sort except
eatables; no places Of amusement to be
open before eight O'Clock p. M; no in
toxicating drinks to be sold near
churches while worship is being con-
Quoted in them, nor anywhere before
noon. The government declares that it
is impossible to forbid all work on Sun
day, or to close all places of amusement.
While movements like this are gong on
in every country where the Cont
mental Sunday" has been tried, certain
foolish persons in this country seek to
transplant the evil here
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1887-07-01
SinHed IIdir.

Smuggling hair is the latest device
the BARRIERS to draw a cu,tomer's money.
said tonsorial artist TO n St. Louis
Globe reporter. hear it is being worked
very successfully down East, ut it has
not reached this city yet. Singing is
done either by rcd-hot irons or by flame.
The hair is held up in comb as now in
cutting, and the ends are singed off. It
is a Gu tom that finds favor with those
who have tendency TO badness. The
barber tells them that their hair is COM
ing out. They get frightened, and then
he tells them IL IS caused by the oil Of
tho root escaping from the top Of each
individual hair. II tho patron admits
that gauzy statement the barber follows
IL up with the remedy, which, Of course,
is nothing moro than singeing the top Of
each hair. This, tho customer is told,
will stop up the hollow by causing n hard
little knob TO form nj the end. That
sounds reasonable, and they take tho
singeing. AZ each hair is left with tho
frizzlod end tho entire head OF hair looks
thicker and the customer looking in tho
glass thinks his hair is really improving
under tho singeing and getting thicker.
So he is happy and nobody is hurt. But
the barber ought TO be excused for this
little scheme. The trade is not what IL
used TO be. The dye business is almost
forgotten, although 20 years ago it was
the most fruitful source Of revenue.
Then everybody had his beard or mus.
tache dyed. Brownish or light whisk r,
were rare then. Everything had to be
black. il was 80 cents for five minutes
work on the thinnest mustacho. so tho
profits could not hcl p being great.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1887-07-01

Silk making is becoming an established
industry and one OF growing Importance
IN the United States. Machinery for
winding silk from tho cocoon has re-
Gently been set up at Washington. Great
demands for silkworm eggs are being
made, and the bulletin of the Depart
ment OF Agriculture describing the silk
worm culture has already run through
eight editions. According to the re-.
ports all demands in this line have
aever been SO great as at present, and it
is expected that considerable quantities
oil American grown silk will before long
ind its way upon the market.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1887-07-01

Captain +. p. Hereunder, after n So
iourn Of four years in the Arctic, is about
to send available collection of Alaska
curios to tho Smithsonian Institution.
He went North in 1881 with the polar
expedition under Lieutenant Ray, and
after leaving that party spent two years
with the Ncwakmunes, little known
tribe. allied to the Esquimaux, living
near Point Barrow. From them he OBJ.
tanned number OF beautiful suits of
tlccr skin, trimmed with wolverine fur,
md great variety Of household utensils
and ornaments, beautifully carved, from
the tusks of mastndons that abound in
The Alaskan fields.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1887-07-01
Redeem.tmo Trade Do.,ar..

The United States sub treasury in
Wall street has been busy during the last
two months with the redemption Of those
Whitehead trade dollars which werc SO
ANONYMOUSLY dismissed from circulation
several years ago. There were some
seven million trade dollars in all, and by
an act OF the last congress the New York
sub treasury was called upon to redeem
the entire lot at one hundred cents
apiece. The movement to redeem tho
Trade dollars started in President Ar
thurs time. When the dollars were
forced out Of circulation by an interest
ing exercise of cooperative power on the
part of the public, they passed into tho
hands Of spectators who bought them
for eighty-fivc cents each, or less, and
held them with fine faith in what the
future could be made TO bring forth. At
one time under President Arthur their
speculative valu. ran up to ninety five
cents and ut another time, under Presi-
dent Cleveland it ran down to seventy
seven CENTS. Their final redemption ut
one hundred cents leaves fairly good
profit to the holders.
Three or four millions of the outcasts
have returned and have been redeemed
so far. Nobody knows, of course, when
the last one viii have been gathered into
the Sub-Trcasury. Not few are in
China, where square holes have been
cut in them to make them resemble
Chinese money. These the Sub Treasury
will not redeem, SO it will be useless for
any one to send them over here. In
fact, no trade dollar is redeemed which
is mutilated, aud it is because mutilated
specimens must be looked out for that
the redemption of the outcasts is at
tended with so much labor. Each one
Of the three or four millions which have
come in has been handled separately.
The Sub-Treasury melts the trade dol
lars up for the silver which is in them
there is considerably less than dollars
worth in each-and the government
pockets the loss.
Doubtless good many wonder how
many dollars there are in the sub treas
ury. There are about one hundred aud
forty million. Leading to the vaults in
which this treasure is stored arc two
steel doors which have such an appear
ancc OF strength that one would think
thousand ton trip-hammers could not
prevail against them. 0nc of those doors
is behind the other, and to reach the
vaults it is necessary to pass through
both. 1t is rule which has never been
violated that the two doors shall never
be opened at the same time. Even tho
secretary OF the treasury, when he goes
into the vaults, must wait for Que of the
steel barricades to swing to and be bolt.
ed and locked behind him before tho
other is opened for his advance. The
roof of the sub-treasury also has appara
tus for the protection OF the gold and
silver which are below. 1t is armed
with Calling guns and repeating rifles
Harper's Weekly.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1887-07-01

Sessions of the Courts.
Cireeit Court. i3sh Judicial ciscest. Hon
Janss D. Arnstroag. Prssiding- ns -
ein 90 folio O:
GRAFT County -Fosrsh Tsesday h March.
ent Tsesday II Jsss ssd third fsssaay il
October.
Hanpshirs Cssasy-First Tuesday In Pss-
ruary. secosd Tuesday 10 May al4 ihir
Tuesday il Septsn6r.
HARDY C,u,ty -Sseoad rsssday II March
last Tuesday 10 May and 6rst ruesday in
October.
Mineral Couaty-- Secoad russday IL jan
sarv. fourth Tuesday in April ssd orss Tues
diy IL 3ep1embes.
Psadlesea cosssy---Secoed Wednesday 10
April, Wednesday after second Tuesday Ia
yupe, aud 6rst "Wednesday 10 Noveoher.
County Court Of Hampshire Count v John
+. Vance. Presideat; L. o. Sehaibbe and q
ID Powell Commissioner >; q. s. whiss. Clerk
The regular sessions are held b~xinning on
The 6rst Tuesday In January, April and Oc-
tober. and <,h Tuesday in Jaiy.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1887-07-01

Describes q Custom Peculiar
to the Chinese.
And Expresses An Ardent Wish that it b
Tarnsi Loos, in thi, O,ua.ry

Bill Ny-, the humorist, says in the S,
Louis Magazine: There is one custom
in the Celestial Empire tina. VIC would
like to see turned loose here. Boys 10
China arc not supposed to be responsible
until they arrive at about the age OF
twenty years, and their parents are held
accountable for all their crookcdness,
just tn, sam, as the owner OF any other
dangerous animal is held responsible fol-
damages.
Surprising bad boy wakes up and
throws stone through your bay win.
dow that skaters fine Gala and busts
the statue of the sweet singer OF Michi-
gan, you do not so out and chase him
four blocks with an iron rake and club
n m till he gets out OF reach, but you
just get an old hoe handle that swings
easy and you search out the boys par.
ents and mix them up with the sand.
Then ii tho boy don't behave himself you
can go to other relatives of his and
gradually enlarge the circle ofyour ac-
entire relationship, even including tho
old grandparents Of the boy, and il any
OF these people resist they are subject to
imprisonment.
This law, although apparently strin.
gent is good on. 1t makes parents
take more interest in their children and
look out for them more accurately. II
encourages pare, t. to know where their
boys arc, and to keep their eyes on them
more than they do out in Laramie.
why if that law were 10 30 in force here,
some men we know would have to take
nm arm CT bath twice day and they
wouldn't have a whole bone in their
Dody. We like TO see bright, active
boy with good health and sound lungs.
lut the thriving blossom that will devotion
into Jesse james, we have no use for.
III the Chinese law could be enforced
htr; against those parents who ar. breed.
ing up a squad of hoodiums, we would
not weep. 1t would be pretty active
work Tor the avengcr and his hoe handle.
but it would institute a reform at lie ast.
AS it is now building cam ct be left
unoccupicd over night before every pane
OIL glass is lroken and the walls smashed
In. Now if the owner had the right TO
clmb the male parent of those BOYS and
knock his shoulder blades through his
spleen and tanglc his works all up sc
that hereafter his food wouldn't be any
benefit to him, it might arouse an interest
In his children so that he would make
them an ornament to society.
You can't do much with a strange DO,
anyhow. If you spank him with an old
window shutter, he goes home and tells
his father. AMI the old man tells him to
go right back and do the same thing and
he will stand by him. Then the boy re-
turns and repeats, and you start after
him with the intention of killing him.
Lut as he turns tho corner a quarter of
mile away and puts his thumb on his
nose aud waves his fingers in the air, you
control your brutal temper and go home.
That's the reason why in twenty wears
from low, it will be bitter cold day
when the telegram doesn't give us the
particulars OF twenty-seven murders and
thirteen train robbcries.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1887-07-01
Cost of Makfng a Watch.

They were comparing timepieces in the
DE Witt house office the other day. A.
l.. Dennison of Portland, was ono OF
them. Trustee Ben Hilton of North
Arson, balanced gold timer on his
dexter finger, and the Hon. Rufus
Prince Of South Turner, produced the
old reliable sun-reguator from his watch
pocket. 1t looked like a convention Of
watch makers and served to point a
moral to this story.
"a cousin OF mine," said Mr. Denni-
son, "who was one OF the same name as
myself, was the first person to make a
watch by machinery. H. was abroad
over twenty years in Switzerland and on
the continent, introducing his watch
making machinery. Not long ago, on a
visit to this country, he came to see me.
lie asked mo this question: How cheap
do you suppose / can make watch by
my machinery, ]. G., good, fair move
ment, one that we would warrant for
term Of three or four yearsP ] tried to
answer him, and did make guess. Now
what would you sayl"
81 can buy 'em for So go, " said Charles
Weymouth.
ooh, say-cr--er 49," replied Mr..
Prince.
Mr.. Dennison smiled, and as he clicked
his jack-knifc and put it in his pocket,
replied with the peculiar satisfaction
that always invests such situation:
'IIc said that he could make such a
watch for just ss cents. Lewiston
Journoi
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1887-07-01

Tho fund Of $500. 600, or %. 500, 900.
left by George Peabody for building i'm
proved houses for the poor of London,
has through rent and interest, grown TO
c9lo 66s. or - 513 $40. There are now
5oi4 separate dwellings. containing H.
$50 rooms. and the average rent Of each
dwelling is less than 81. 25 week.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1887-07-01

THIRTY Two suite have been instituted
against the Boston and Prov .dence Railroad
Company by those injure ia tils recent d.
aster 81 BuSsey Bii igc The damages e aimed
vary from 500 90 1000, and the aggregate
Is over 10000
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1887-07-01

IL IS good rule 10 never forget tho
kindly deeds which others do to Won.
and never remember those you do for
them.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1887-08-13
Craze for Stuffed Animals.

Now, why do people, and especially small children, like stuffed animals? Be- cause they are not sufficiently familiar with the living body of the animal to feel any shock on seeing ti.- dead one. They miss no familiar action, they are ignorant of the proper curves and they think the glass eyes look so harmlessly ''alive again" But that is fault in training. They think them beautiful; they do not see that the colors are dull, faded or ridiculously renovated with dye. Such is their ignor moe that they feel as the peasants felt when they saw the good father who had christened the child or calmed the sick standing up in a nice frock looking as good as new. Oh, crass stupor of the senses! bluntness of feeling for the reality of association! It is not the frock which makes the monk, it is not the fur which makes the squirrel, nor the wing nor the glass eye which brings back the song and the rustling of trees and the darting flight in the sunshine. Nothing but being unaccustomed to the form and action of the creature living makes that creature pleasant to us when it is no longer Belgravia.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1887-08-13
Summons.

In the District Court of the Second Judicial District of the Territory of Arizona, in and for the County of Final
 T. W. Morgan, Thomas s. James and P. W. Morrison, Plaintiff, vs. George N. Fletcher, defendant
 Action brought in the District Court of the Second Judicial District of the Territory of Arizona, in and for the County of Final, and the Complaint filed in the said County of PinAl. in the office of the Clerk of said District Court.
 The Territory of Arizona sends greeting to George N. Fletcher, defendant.
 You are hereby required to appear in an &C., tion brought against you by the above named plaintiffs, in the District Court of the Second Judicial District of the Territory of Arizona, iu and for the County of Pinal, and to answer the complaint filed therein, within twenty days (exclusive of the day of service), after the service on you of this summons If served with in this county; or if served out of this county, but in this district within thirty days; other wise within forty dsysl, or judgment by de- fault will be taken against you according to the prayer of said complaint,
 The sai action is brought to obtain de- cree of this Court requiring you to set forth the nature and ground of your claim to the "Eighty-Six mine, formerly known as the Mars mine, said mine being situate about 200 yards noIthwesterly from the Mammoth Mine, in Old Hat Mining District, Pinal County, Arizona Territory, and that by said decree it be adjudged that you have no inter est or estate in said mining ground. and that plaintiffs title thereto is good and valid, end for other and further relief. and costs of suit as will more fully appear from the complaint on file herein.
 And you are hereby notified that if you fai to appear and answer the said complaint, as above required, the said plaintiff will have your default entered, and apply to the Court for the relief therein demanded.
 Given under my hand and Seal of the Dis
 trict Court of the Second Jsdicia
 District of the Territory of Arizona TSEAIl in and for the County of Pinal, thi
 27th day of June, in the year of ou
 Lord, one thousand eight hundred
 and eighty-seven.
 w. WOOD PORTER, Clerk. SLOAN & STONE, Att'ys for Pl'tffs.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1887-08-13
Summons.


 In the District Court of the Second Judicial District of the Territory of Arizona, in and for Pinal County.
 Erskin Johnson, Plaintiff, vs. Alice Johnson, Defendant.
 Action brought in the District Court of the Second Judicial District of the Territory of Arizona, in and for Pinal County, and the Complaint filed in the said County of Pinal, in the office of the Clerk of said District Court.
 In the name of the Territory of Arizona to Alice Johnson, Defendant, greeting, You are hereby summoned and required to appear in an action brought against you by the above named plaintiff, in the District Court of the Second Judicial District of the Territory of Arizona, in and for Pinal County, and answer the complaint therein filed with the Clerk of this said Court. at Florence in said county within ten (10) days after the ser vice upon you of this summons, if served in this said county, or if served out of this county but within this Judicial District, then within twenty (20), days; in all other cases within thirty (3Ol days thereafter; the times above mentioned being exclusive of the day of ser vice. or judgment by default will be taken against you..
 Given under my hand and the seal of the
 District Court of the Second Judicial
 District of the Territory of Arizona, SEAL in and for Pinal County, this Both
 day of July 1887.
 W. WOOD PORTER. Clerk.
 By c. w. Lemon, Deputy Clerk.